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Friday, 10 May 2013
"The more we receive in silent prayer, the more we can give in our active life. Silence gives us a new outlook on everything. We need silence in order to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say, but what God says to us and through us. Jesus is always waiting for us in silence." - Mother Teresa
Tuesday, 12 March 2013
It is a poor thing to strike our colours to God when the ship is going down under us; a poor thing to come to Him as a last resort, to offer up "our own" when it is no longer worth keeping. If God were proud, He would hardly have us on such terms.
-- C. S. Lewis
Monday, 11 March 2013
The childish idea that prayer is a handle by which we can take hold of God and obtain whatever we desire, leads to easy disillusionment with both what we had thought to be God and what we had thought to be prayer.
-- Robert L. Short
Wednesday, 20 February 2013
A man who prays without ceasing, if he achieves something, knows why he achieved it, and can take no pride in it... for he cannot attribute it to his own powers, but attributes all his achievements to God, always renders thanks to him and constantly calls upon him, trembling lest he be deprived of help. -- Dorotheus of Gaza
Monday, 18 February 2013
Jesus said to them, "There are many, many people to harvest (save). But there are only a few workers to help harvest them. God owns the harvest (people). Pray to God that he will send more workers to help gather his harvest." -- Luke 10:2 (ERV)
Wednesday, 13 February 2013
The discussion of prayer is so great that it requires the Father to reveal it, His firstborn Word to teach it, and the Spirit to enable us to think and speak rightly of so great a subject.
-- Origen
Wednesday, 30 January 2013
When you face the perils of weariness, carelessness, and confusion, don't pray for an easier life. Pray instead to be a stronger man or woman of God.
-- Luis Palau
Thursday, 20 December 2012
Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can live and not breathe is past my comprehension, and how a person can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too. -- J. C. Ryle
Tuesday, 25 September 2012
"Let us ask God to make us true in our love, to make us sacrificial beings, for it seems to me that sacrifice is only love put into action."
- Elizabeth of the Trinity
Thursday, 05 July 2012
"Get up and pray for help all through the night. Pour out your feelings to the Lord, as you would pour water out of a jug. Beg [the Lord] to save your people, who are starving to death at every street crossing."
- Lamentations 2:19, NRSV
Monday, 06 February 2012
"Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action."
- Mohandas Gandhi
Monday, 03 October 2011
Grace begins and ends prayer. Grace is what we call what is left over after the scouring of the self, the dying into self. Grace is what was there before we ever looked at ourselves in prayer. Grace gives us our initial impulse to pray.
- Ann Belford Ulanov, from her book Picturing God
Sunday, 12 June 2011
Listen to my voice in the morning, Lord. Each morning I bring my requests to you and wait expectantly. ~ Psalm 5:3, NLT
Saturday, 11 June 2011
Help me, Lord, to remember that religion is not to be confined to the church... nor exercised only in prayer and meditation, but that every where I am in Thy Presence.
-- Susanna Wesley
Thursday, 09 June 2011
O Lord, be gracious to us;
we wait for you.
Be our arm every morning,
our salvation in the time of trouble.
- Isaiah 33:2
Friday, 25 February 2011
"In that day you will not ask me for anything. I tell you the truth. My Father will give you anything you ask for in my name. You have never asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive. And you will be truly happy. "I have told you these things, using words that hide the meaning. But the time will come when I will not use words like that to tell you things. I will speak to you in plain words about the Father. In that day you will ask the Father for things in my name. I am saying that I will not need to ask the Father for you. No! The Father himself loves you. He loves you because you have loved me. And he loves you because you have believed that I came from God."
~ Jesus, John 16:23-27 (ERV)
Sunday, 20 February 2011
After Jesus said these things he looked toward heaven. Jesus prayed, "Father, the time has come. Give glory to your Son so that the Son can give glory to you. You gave the Son power over all people so that the Son could give eternal life to all those people you have given to him. And this is eternal life: that people can know you, the only true God, and that people can know Jesus Christ, the One you sent."
-- John 17:1-3 (ERV)
Monday, 14 February 2011
[Jesus Prayed] Departing Prayer "Now I am coming to you. I will not stay in the world now. But these men are still in the world. Holy Father, keep them safe. Keep them safe by the power of your name (the name you gave me), so that they will be one, the same as you and I are one." -- John 17:11 (ERV)
Saturday, 12 February 2011
[Jesus prayed] "While I was with them, I kept them safe. I kept them safe by the power of your name--the name you gave me. I protected them. And only one of them was lost--the man (Judas) that chose to be lost. He was lost so that what was said in the Scriptures would happen."
-- John 17:12 (ERV)
Monday, 07 February 2011
[Jesus Prayed] "I have given them your teaching. And the world has hated them. The world hated these men, because they don't belong to the world, the same as I don't belong to the world. I am not asking you to take them out of the world. But I am asking that you keep them safe from the Evil One (the devil)." -- John 17:14-15 (ERV)
Sunday, 06 February 2011
[Jesus Prayed] "They don't belong to the world, the same as I don't belong to the world. Make them ready for your service through your truth. Your teaching is truth." -- John 17:16-17 (ERV)
Friday, 04 February 2011
"I have sent them into the world, the same as you sent me into the world. I am making myself ready to serve. I do this for them, so that they can truly be ready for your service." -- John 17:18-19 (ERV)
Thursday, 03 February 2011
While they were praying, the place where they were meeting trembled and shook. They were all filled with the Holy Spirit and continued to speak God’s Word with fearless confidence. -- Acts 4:31 msg
Sunday, 30 January 2011
"I pray for these men. But I am also praying for all people that will believe in me because of the teaching of these men. Father, I pray that all people that believe in me can be one. You are in me and I am in you. I pray that these people can also be one in us, so that the world will believe that you sent me." -- John 17:20-21 (ERV)
Tuesday, 25 January 2011
"Father, I want these people that you have given me to be with me in every place I am. I want them to see my glory. This is the glory you gave me because you loved me before the world was made."
-- John 17:24 (ERV)
Sunday, 23 January 2011
"Father, you are the One who is good. The world does not know you, but I know you. And these people know that you sent me. I showed them what you are like. And again I will show them what you are like. Then they will have the same love that you have for me. And I will live in them."
-- John 17:25-26 (ERV)
Thursday, 23 December 2010
Bless us Lord, this Christmas, with quietness of mind; Teach us to be patient and always to be kind.
-- Helen Steiner Rice
Sunday, 19 December 2010
One of Satan’s greatest tactics that he uses against us is distractions. If he can keep us distracted, he will keep us from fulfilling our purpose and our mission here on earth. We must recognize this tactic and overcome it.
Click and listen to this encouraging message by Rev. Greg Johnson, founder of LGF. It will tell us how we can overcome distractions and fulfill our purpose and mission in life.
Friday, 10 December 2010
I have had prayers answered--most strangely so sometimes--but I think our heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me. -- Lewis Carroll
Tuesday, 21 September 2010
Prayer always thrusts one out into action sooner or later. One of its main functions is to induce one to think creatively; it stretches the imagination; it enables one to see things and people not as they are but as they might be.
- Muriel Lester,
social reformer and pacifist (1883-1968)
Friday, 16 July 2010
"If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land."
-- 2 Chronicles 7:14
Saturday, 10 July 2010
If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them.
-- John Owen
Sunday, 27 June 2010
As we pray to our God and Father about you, we think of your faithful work, your loving deeds, and the enduring hope you have because of the Lord Jesus Christ.
~ 1 Thessalonians 1:3, NLT
Friday, 04 June 2010
We Christians must simplify our lives or lose untold treasures on earth and in eternity. Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. The need for solitude and quietness was never greater than it is today.
-- A. W. Tozer
Saturday, 22 May 2010
Five A.M. in the Pinewoods
I'd seen
their hoofprints in the deep
needles and knew
they ended the long night
under the pines, walking
like two mute
and beautiful women toward
the deeper woods, so I
got up in the dark and
went there. They came
slowly down the hill
and looked at me sitting under
the blue trees, shyly
they stepped
closer and stared
from under their thick lashes and even
nibbled some damp
tassels of weeds. This
is not a poem about a dream,
though it could be.
This is a poem about the world
that is ours, or could be.
Finally
one of them — I swear it! —
would have come to my arms.
But the other
stamped sharp hoof in the
pine needles like
the tap of sanity,
and they went off together through
the trees. When I woke
I was alone,
I was thinking:
so this is how you swim inward,
so this is how you flow outward,
so this is how you pray.
Sunday, 02 May 2010
It is useless to utter fervent petitions for that Kingdom to be established and that Will be done, unless we are willing to do something about it ourselves. ... We are agents of the Creative Spirit in this world. Real advance in the spiritual life means accepting this vocation with all it involves.
- Evelyn Underhill,
The Spiritual Life (1936)
Sunday, 18 April 2010
When you pray, move your feet.
- African Proverb
Friday, 16 April 2010
I know that through your prayers and the help given by the Spirit of Jesus Christ, what has happened to me will turn out for my deliverance.
-- Philippians 1:19
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